View full sizeAmy Weiser, Clear ChannelDieter Dominic, left, pictured with "Rover's Morning Glory" castmates Rover and Duji, has been disciplined by WMMS-FM/100.7 for an off-color suggestion in Friday's show. Dieter advised a father who caught his daughter kissing another girl to have a male friend have sex with her.

Dominic Dieter, a member of the "Rover's Morning Glory" team on WMMS-FM/100.7, has been disciplined by station owner Clear Channel for an off-color suggestion to a father worried about his daughter's possible homosexuality.

In response to an email from the father, Dieter advised the father to have a friend "screw [her] straight."

The comment Friday provoked an outcry in the gay and lesbian community.

Aaron McQuade, the New York-based director of news and field media for GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), said the organization "reached out" to station management after receiving several complaints.

"We had a good conversation with them and said this essentially was advocating the rape of a teenaged girl and was hideously inappropriate," McQuade said.

The station aired a recorded apology from Dieter, who was not on the air for today's broadcast of the morning drive show, which traditionally stretches the boundaries of taste.

"I want to genuinely apologize to anyone who may have been offended by what I said," Dieter told listeners today, according to a transcript sent to GLAAD. "I regret what I did say. My comments were inappropriate. They were inexcusable, and just downright stupid. And I want to make it clear; there was absolutely no intention to promote physical or sexual violence."

"We take matters of this nature very seriously; his comment was thoughtless and unacceptable, and we apologize to those who were offended," said Clear Channel Operations Manager Keith Abrams in an emailed response to a request for comment. "We can assure you the appropriate disciplinary action has been taken, and Dieter has since apologized on air and is fully aware that what he said was unacceptable.

"We also want you to be aware that during Friday's broadcast, he was in fact immediately criticized on-air by the other hosts of the show, and the rest of the segment was dedicated to a productive discussion about the acceptance of all lifestyles," Abrams wrote. "It included call-ins and commentary from members and friends of the gay community. WMMS supports the gay community and again, we deeply apologize."

Abrams would not divulge the breadth of the disciplinary action, or whether it was limited to today's absence.

McQuade said Clear Channel's leaders told him that the station will air several public-service announcements stressing parental acceptance of a gay child's lifestyle.

"[Gay] kids rejected by the parents are nine times more likely to attempt suicide," McQuade said.

The GLAAD spokesman also said Clear Channel told him it is inviting Equality Ohio, a gay-rights group, to become part of the WMMS Community Advisory Board.